Hans Lindquist, Magnus Levin

Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An introduction to corpus linguistics for students of English language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781474421706
• ISBN-10: 1474421709
• Artikelnr.: 53537622

Autorenporträt

Hans Lindquist is professor of English Linguistics at Malmö University, Sweden. He has taught English in Switzerland, the United States, Japan, New Zealand and the Gambia and co-edited volumes on translation theory, the major varieties of English, and corpora and grammaticalization. Magnus Levin is Associate Professor of Languages at Linneaus University. His research interests include change and variation in English grammar and phraseology, pragmatics and translation studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Prelims: List of figures; List of tables; To readers; List of abbrevations
1: Corpus linguistics
2: Counting, calculating and annotating
3: Looking for lexis
4: Checking colligations and collocations
5: Finding phrases
6: Metaphor and metonymy
7: Grammar
8: Male and female
9: Language change
10: Corpus linguistics in cyberspace
Further reading